Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and Janet King have silently created a broad variety of supreme ewe and also cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.
Kingsmeade began making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain as well as lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep allow, contented and loaded with individuality-- no requirement to round them up at milking time, they listen to Miles' voice and also come on their very own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records and genetic studies, Miles' flock has actually become New Zealand's initial registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes nine various varieties of cheese, a lot of from ewe's milk and also some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, varying from aged difficult varieties to deliciously creamy.
Calmness as well as quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the very first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the everyday milking, cheesemaking, cutting and also packaging. Each set of cheese is hand made in the factory on the farm, best alongside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders all over New Zealand.